ADI DA AND ADIDAM: PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
Crazy Wisdom: Adi Da's Current Teaching on Emotional-Sexual Relationships, Sex, and Celibacy
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Avatar Adi Da Samraj's Current Teaching
on Emotional-Sexual Relationships, Sex, and Celibacy


Below are two essays from Adi Da Samraj's annotated bibliographical work, The Basket Of Tolerance. In these essays, Avatar Adi Da comments about certain approaches to sexuality put forth in some of the traditional and modern religious and spiritual texts that appear in the bibliography. These essays communicate some of His most recent Instruction.

After a profound Yogic Event in 1986, Avatar Adi Da Samraj more and more profoundly shed His Teaching mode of Working with devotees. For the past several years, and most especially more recently, Avatar Adi Da has emphasized very clearly that the "consideration time" is over, and that we now have His Instruction, which it is the devotee's obligation to study and intelligently embrace. Together with Avatar Adi Da Samraj's Open Letter, Chris Tong's overview of Adi Da's Crazy Wisdom, and Anthony Costabile's overview, these three essays provide the background for understanding Adi Da Samraj's Instruction relative to sexuality. The comprehensive details of that Instruction can be found in His Dawn Horse Testament.

 
   
A Call to Freedom of Choice in Religion and in Sexual Practice — "Truly, in a democratic society, every human individual must be free to choose his or her own form and manner of religious (or, otherwise, philosophical) commitment and practice. And, because sexual practice is necessarily based on the particular views associated with one's own personal, and (possibly) religious, or, otherwise, philosophical understanding, every human individual within a democratic society must be free to choose his or her own form and manner of sexual practice and sexual commitment."
Adi Da Samraj
 

Adi Da SamrajRight sexual self-Discipline Is Yogic, ego-Transcending, and Happy — "[T]he progressive transcending of sexually related ego-bondage is a matter of self-understanding (and intelligent, voluntary relinquishment of the ego-based sex-mind), and also of self-disciplining control and conservation of sexual energy, and consistent, intentional conversion (or re-direction, or inward and upward reversal) of the (otherwise downward and outward) flow of sexual energy. This process of self-understanding, relinquishment, control, conservation, and conversion requires (and, more and more, magnifies) a profound and positive (and, altogether, right) change in one's participation in (or relationship to) the sexual (and emotional-sexual) process."

 


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As you see from Beloved Adi Da's Instruction, there is no inherent "right" or "wrong" in the area of sexuality. The overriding principle is that of practice, devotion, Reality. Beloved has said that optimally it would be best if one were simply single and celibate — even from the beginning that would be optimal in that all of one's attention would be available for the most intense application to practice. But until there really is that degree of free energy and attention, being celibate or sexually active are equal choices, both requiring real life disciplines to bring the devotee through the beginners' stages.


I once asked Beloved Adi Da about how to make the choice to be either a single celibate or to be in a sexually active relationship. He Said to me, "If you can't be a celibate, then be in relationship. And I have Given you the discipline for each."


Since 2004, Beloved Adi Da has also been particularly impressing upon devotees that no matter how good or proficient one's yogic sexual capabilities may develop, sex is in no way causative relative to the Spiritual process.


I also once asked Beloved what would be the reason, then, to enter into an intimate relationship. He humorously Responded, "Because you can't help yourself." Exactly. He was speaking colloquially there, meaning most folks enter into a relationship because they are not able to not do it, for whatever reason or motivation. He Speaks of this sometimes in terms of the "impulse to bond with an other."

Leroy Stilwell (Sent Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:24AM)

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